UGS 303 Bonevac Final Exam|331
Questions with solutions
Doyle's vision is tragic in that Sherlock Holmes has to - -make tradeoffs
among competing goods, sacrificing one thing to get another
-Which term is thick? - -courageous
-The golden rule: - -Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
-The immediate cause of World War I: - -the assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand
-Shaw sees civilization as - -corrupt and built of rotten materials
-Among the writers of the Harlem Renaissance: - -Hughes, Cullen, Hurston,
DuBois
-Pirandello sees as reality as - -irrational, even contradictory
-NOT a result of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930: - -the rise of Mussolini
in Italy
-Lenin responded to a crisis in Soviet agriculture in 1921 by - -allowing
peasant farmers to own land and seek their crops
-Kolakowski: "probably the most massive war-like operation ever conducted
by a state against its own citizens." - -Stalin's collectivization of agriculture
-The first act of the Weimar Republic was to - -sign the Treaty of Versailles
-" I believe this is peace for our time." - -Neville Chamberlain, after meeting
with Hitler in Munich
-The goal of the State, according to Hitler: - -conservation of the racial
characteristics of mankind
-Gleichschaltung: - -thought control, molding society to a single worldview
-"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so
painfully as to find someone to worship." - -Dostoevsky
-"But everything so far that has made metaphysical assumptions valuable,
frightful, delightful, is passion, error, and self-deception—the worst methods
,of attaining knowledge, not the very best, have taught us to believe in
them." - -Nietzsche
-"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude
and sorrowful and superficial--I believe we are lost." - -Remarque
-"What it liberty? You say of the locomotive that it runs free. What do you
mean? You mean that its parts are so assembled and adjusted that friction is
reduced to a minimum, and that it has perfect adjustment." - -Wilson
-"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—
and not make thoughts your aim...." - -Kipling
-"Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create
institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source
by their very nature is in the people." - -Coolidge
-"As an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new
generation, the chosen youth from the muddled, unchastened world, still fed
romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen
and poets." - -Fitzgerald
-"It is true that there are dreams the manifest content of which is of the
most painful nature. But has anyone ever tried to interpret these dreams- to
discover their latent thought-content?" - -Freud
-"...there lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for
which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer, and there is even a
terror and a hardness in this creed of personal relationships, urbane and mild
though it sounds. Love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the
claims of the State. When they do — down with the State, say I...." - -Forster
-"Fascism [is] the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called
scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which
would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by
changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of
all else." - -Mussolini
-"If liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government." - -Mussolini
-Dostoevsky: the vision of the anointed inevitably leads to - -narcissism
-Protagoras, in saying "Man is the measure of all things," advocates - -
relativism
-"Knowing the better and doing the worse": - -weakness of will
, -Marx: The function of a human being is to - -make, produce
-Around 1900, Democrats became convinced that economic power was
centralizing, due to - -the rise of the corporation
-The prosperity of the 1920s brought with it - -a flowering of literature and
the arts
-What governs the ego: - -the reality principle
-A key component of the First New Deal, struck down as unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court in US v. Butler (1936): - -the Agricultural Adjustment Act
-How much time elapsed between the German invasion of France in 1940
and France's surrender? - -6 weeks
-Hitler found his early base of support primarily among - -university
students and professors
-In Germany, the price of a loaf of bread, which had been .13 in 1914, by
November 15, 1923 had become - -100,000,000,000 marks
-"For having begun to build their tower of Babel without us, they will end, of
course, with cannibalism." - -Dostoevsky
-"That deception will be our suffering, for we shall be forced to lie." - -
Dostoevsky
-"The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds
with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we
saw shattered this belief. We had to recognise that our generation was more
to be trusted than theirs." - -Remarque
-"Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my
soul." - -Yeats
-"They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. They justified freedom by the text that we are
all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit." - -Coolidge
-"If there is any one thing among us that is established beyond question, it is
self-government — the right of the people to rule." - -Coolidge
-"I realize that all society rests upon force. But all the great creative actions,
all the decent human relations, occur during the intervals when force has not
Questions with solutions
Doyle's vision is tragic in that Sherlock Holmes has to - -make tradeoffs
among competing goods, sacrificing one thing to get another
-Which term is thick? - -courageous
-The golden rule: - -Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
-The immediate cause of World War I: - -the assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand
-Shaw sees civilization as - -corrupt and built of rotten materials
-Among the writers of the Harlem Renaissance: - -Hughes, Cullen, Hurston,
DuBois
-Pirandello sees as reality as - -irrational, even contradictory
-NOT a result of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930: - -the rise of Mussolini
in Italy
-Lenin responded to a crisis in Soviet agriculture in 1921 by - -allowing
peasant farmers to own land and seek their crops
-Kolakowski: "probably the most massive war-like operation ever conducted
by a state against its own citizens." - -Stalin's collectivization of agriculture
-The first act of the Weimar Republic was to - -sign the Treaty of Versailles
-" I believe this is peace for our time." - -Neville Chamberlain, after meeting
with Hitler in Munich
-The goal of the State, according to Hitler: - -conservation of the racial
characteristics of mankind
-Gleichschaltung: - -thought control, molding society to a single worldview
-"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so
painfully as to find someone to worship." - -Dostoevsky
-"But everything so far that has made metaphysical assumptions valuable,
frightful, delightful, is passion, error, and self-deception—the worst methods
,of attaining knowledge, not the very best, have taught us to believe in
them." - -Nietzsche
-"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude
and sorrowful and superficial--I believe we are lost." - -Remarque
-"What it liberty? You say of the locomotive that it runs free. What do you
mean? You mean that its parts are so assembled and adjusted that friction is
reduced to a minimum, and that it has perfect adjustment." - -Wilson
-"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—
and not make thoughts your aim...." - -Kipling
-"Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create
institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source
by their very nature is in the people." - -Coolidge
-"As an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new
generation, the chosen youth from the muddled, unchastened world, still fed
romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen
and poets." - -Fitzgerald
-"It is true that there are dreams the manifest content of which is of the
most painful nature. But has anyone ever tried to interpret these dreams- to
discover their latent thought-content?" - -Freud
-"...there lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for
which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer, and there is even a
terror and a hardness in this creed of personal relationships, urbane and mild
though it sounds. Love and loyalty to an individual can run counter to the
claims of the State. When they do — down with the State, say I...." - -Forster
-"Fascism [is] the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so-called
scientific and Marxian socialism, the doctrine of historic materialism which
would explain the history of mankind in terms of the class struggle and by
changes in the processes and instruments of production, to the exclusion of
all else." - -Mussolini
-"If liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government." - -Mussolini
-Dostoevsky: the vision of the anointed inevitably leads to - -narcissism
-Protagoras, in saying "Man is the measure of all things," advocates - -
relativism
-"Knowing the better and doing the worse": - -weakness of will
, -Marx: The function of a human being is to - -make, produce
-Around 1900, Democrats became convinced that economic power was
centralizing, due to - -the rise of the corporation
-The prosperity of the 1920s brought with it - -a flowering of literature and
the arts
-What governs the ego: - -the reality principle
-A key component of the First New Deal, struck down as unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court in US v. Butler (1936): - -the Agricultural Adjustment Act
-How much time elapsed between the German invasion of France in 1940
and France's surrender? - -6 weeks
-Hitler found his early base of support primarily among - -university
students and professors
-In Germany, the price of a loaf of bread, which had been .13 in 1914, by
November 15, 1923 had become - -100,000,000,000 marks
-"For having begun to build their tower of Babel without us, they will end, of
course, with cannibalism." - -Dostoevsky
-"That deception will be our suffering, for we shall be forced to lie." - -
Dostoevsky
-"The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds
with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we
saw shattered this belief. We had to recognise that our generation was more
to be trusted than theirs." - -Remarque
-"Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my
soul." - -Yeats
-"They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. They justified freedom by the text that we are
all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit." - -Coolidge
-"If there is any one thing among us that is established beyond question, it is
self-government — the right of the people to rule." - -Coolidge
-"I realize that all society rests upon force. But all the great creative actions,
all the decent human relations, occur during the intervals when force has not
